Sports cheater story

dude takes drugs for 8 months to see how they work. Fun and information.

"Drug TestEverybody knows that many athletes cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids, testosterone, and EPO. But what is it like to take these banned substances? Do they really help you win? To find out, we sent an amateur cyclist into the back rooms of sports medicine, where he just said yes to the most controversial chemicals in sports."

Seriously, though, as a citizen in a free world, if I've evaluated the risks and decided that I want to take steroids/HGH/whatever, how could it be rationalized that I shouldn't be able to (without a "medical need" and the sanctioning of a doctor)?